flophouse

noun

flop·​house ˈfläp-ˌhau̇s How to pronounce flophouse (audio)
Synonyms of flophousenext
: a cheap rooming house or hotel

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Our flophouse in Harlem was growing crowded. — Zayd Ayers Dohrn, New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2026 Many of the locals worked in factories and slept in flophouses. — Literary Hub, 31 Oct. 2025 In a recurring theme, an unmarried female Haitian in the flophouse is pregnant. — Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 27 Dec. 2025 What was built was a 29-story baby-poop brown block of a building that looked like a cheap heating unit jutting out of a wall in a flophouse apartment. — Culture Critic, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Nov. 2016 See All Example Sentences for flophouse

Word History

First Known Use

1916, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of flophouse was in 1916

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“Flophouse.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flophouse. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.

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